​​NATALIE LOMONTE​​
Natalie Lomonte is a Choreographer, Director, Performer and Teacher in NYC. As a dancer, she collaborated to create work and toured
extensively with Momix, Pilobolus, The Chase Brock Experience and Parsons Dance. She has performed on national television in the U.S., Europe and Japan and danced with Liza Minnelli in the movie Sex And The City 2. Natalie was in the original Broadway cast of Spiderman:Turn Off the Dark, where she eventually served as the Dance Captain and Dance Supervisor. In 2012 Natalie became the Movement Director for One Year Lease Theater Company and an Adjunct Professor of Dance at Fordham University. She choreographs for theater, dance, film, live events and has led creative movement workshops at Harvard University, Fordham University, Vassar College, PACE University, and Marymount Manhattan College- where she now serves as Vice President on the Dance Department Advisory Board. Her choreography has been honored by the San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Edinburgh Arts Festival & such publications as the New York Times. In 2015, Natalie was honored to premiere two original pieces Within (a work commissioned by Parsons Dance for the Joyce Theater) and Common Heart (a piece commissioned for the Ailey/Fordham BFA Fall Concert). That year she was also Assistant Stage Directer and Choreographer for the live-broadcast stadium show, 44th National Day Abu Dhabi. In 2016 Natalie served as Assistant Choreographer to Mia Michaels, creating the brand new New York Spectacular starring the Radio City Rockettes. She was the guest choreographer for the 2017 Whitney Houston Biennial, was awarded a grant by The Ailey Foundation’s New Directions Choreography Lab, and choreographed an original play, BALLS, which had a successful world premiere in Houston before moving Off-Broadway in 2018. That year, Natalie also performed with PILOBOLUS at the Natural History Museum in NYC for Earth Day and the historic Apollo Theater for the launch of Moving On. She then spent the second half of the year in Japan, where she assisted David Parsons in choreographing an original musical, A Knights’ Tale, written and directed by John Caird. In celebration of the hundreds of female-identifying artists showcased in the 2019 Every Woman Biennial (La Mama Galleria, NYC), Natalie created the I Wanna Dance With Somebody flash mob- a love letter to Whitney Houston, NYC and the divine feminine. She preimiered her latest commission, Sentiments Of The Shooting Stars, in the 2019 Ailey/Fordham BFA Fall Concert (Ailey Citigroup Theater). In recent years, Natalie's choreographic projects have spanned genres, including an original music video, Goddess Logic (artist: Stephanie Carlin); Iron & Coal (Gerald W. Lynch Theater/ Prototype Opera Festival); Rise From Our Hearts (The Soap Gallery, visual artist: Aaron Jackendoff, musician: Kasey Yale); Boys Will Be Boys (The Pond Theater Co./ 59e59 Theaters); Pieces of the Moon arial workshops & production (OYL Theater Co/ The Muse Brooklyn/ Stages Repertory Theatre); Estella: A Christmas Carol (creation & music by Paul Gordon, written and directed by John Caird StreamingMusicals.com); Kissing the Floor (written by Ellen McGlaughlin, directed by Ianthe Demos). This Fall, Natalie is honored to step into the role of Interim Associate Artistic Director for Parsons Dance.